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Thursday, July 27, 2006

MING CAMPBELL, CLARE SHORT, BBC ETC ACCUSE THEMSELVES OF WAR CRIMES

Ming Campbell, the Liberal Democrat leader has called on us not to allow the sale of arms to Israel because their bombing of Lebanon amounts legally to a collective punishment because of Hezbollah's terrorism.

Ming Campbell was Nazi Ashdown's shadow Foreign Secretary when he supported the overwhelmingly civilian bombing of Israel because Yugoslavia dared to resist the genocidal terrorists run by NATO.

Clare Short attacked Israel for bombing Lebanon as criminal.

Clare Short was a minister in the government that bombed Yugoslavia, knowingly & deliberately for the purpose of assisting in genocide. Indeed she attacked other Labour MPs who dared to express doubts about bombing civilians by accusing them of not being good "socialists".

Nicol Stephen (Scottish Lib Dem leader for those who haven't heard of him) said that Israel's attack on a power supply in Gaza was a "war crime".

Nicol Stephen entirely supported his party & the UK government in making an undeniably aggressive war, for the purpose of genocide, in which one of the very least of his leader's crimes was the bombing of Yugoslav power stations. They used US designed bombs containing graphite dust designed to make transformers continuously short out & be unrepairable.

Throught out Pro-KLA war the BBC reported both sides of the question. The question being whether (A) the Serbs were evil & should be bombed to death or (B) the Serbs were dreadful & should be killed by ground forces (the correct answer - that ground forces would lose if they tried attacking from Albania over 5,000 ft mountains, was never allowed to enter the debate).

The BBC, alongside Amnesty, prominently reports Israel as liable for war crimes in a war which is undeniably far less aggressive than that of NATO. Amnesty has also supported lying propaganda by the genocidal KLA

George Galloway condemned the British government when it bombed civilians as part of a criminal war.

George Galloway condemns Israel for its war on Lebanon.

I have, what I suspect as being the unique distinction of having one reader here announce that he was tearing up his subscription because he disapproved of my respect for the integrity of Mr Galloway (I disagree with most of what he says but accept his general integrity) & another doing the same because I had said the media were suppressing information suggesting an accusation of murder against Israel was unfounded. Life is tough for us middle of the road moderates.

It is quite obvious that, purely in their own words, all of these except George have condemned themselves as having assisted in a criminal war & deliberate involvement in mass murder during that war & probably of genocide thereafter. It is also undeniable that all of them are blaming Jews for actions they have been guilty of in support of openly genocidal Nazi organisations.

If Jews had been engaged in an illegal war I would condemn them, genocide far moreso & I would expect every decent person to do so. These creatures are guilty of illegal war & genocide in cooperation with Nazis & any decent person must condemn them equally.

For the last 2 weeks, the BBC's veteran reporter, Mr.Jeremy Bowen, has been accusing and condemning Israel for being "technically guilty of war crimes" for targeting Lebanon's civilian infrastructure which is being used by the Hizbollah Islamist terrorists for the resupply and transporting of its rockets and missiles being fired on Israeli civilian areas. No condemnation by Mr. Bowen for these Islamist war crimes against Israel.

Hardly surprising really, since Mr Bowen never even ONCE condemned NATO for crimes several orders of magnitude worse being perpetrated by NATO when it completely obliterated Serbia's civilian infrastructure, nor did Mr. Bowen condemn NATO's deliberate bombing of civilians attempting to flee the bombardment of residential apartment blocks and houses in 78 days and nights of terror bombing.

In the article below we also get a different angle to the corrupt lying UN boss, Kofi Annan's condemnation of Israel. Mr. Annan, as you correctly pointed out actually SUPPORTED NATO's deliberate bombing of civilians - both Albanian and Serbian - for 3 long months, from March to June 1999. I still remember Madeleine Albright's attacks against UN offical Yasushi Akashi,whom after criticizing Clinton's policies towards the Bosnian Serbs was promptly reminded by Albright:

"These people (meaning Mr. Akashi) should be reminded againm who pays their (UN)salaries"

Retired Maj. Gen. LEWIS MACKENZIE, in Canada's 'Globe and Mail' speaks about Kofi Annan's blaming of Israel for the death of UN truce monitors and his experiences in Sarajevo,Bosnia, as UN Commander of that city, where he witnessed Izetbegovic's Islamist Nazi SDA troops DELIBERATELY setting up Sarajevo residents to be killed in front of the cameras in order to demonize and gain PR points with politicians and the corrupt Western media's viewing public against the Bosnian Serbs.

For soing so, Mackenzie was branded "pro-Serb", a "Serb propagandist" - even so far as being accused of raping 12 year old Bosnian Muslim girls by Izetbegovic's PR media people!!

"On hearing the news that a United Nations observation post manned by four unarmed peacekeepers at the nexus of the Israeli, Lebanese and Syrian borders was struck by an Israeli bomb, an uncharacteristically forceful Kofi Annan bolted out of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to proclaim his shock at the “apparently deliberate targeting” by Israel Defence Forces of the post.

"The UN Secretary-General went on to say the UN would conduct a full investigation. A curious statement, considering his comment that the IDF intentionally targeted the observers. Case closed, n’est-ce pas? Not quite.

"The blast on Tuesday claimed the lives of Major Paeta Derek Hess-von Kruedener, a Canadian serving with the UN Truce Supervision Organization mission in southern Lebanon, and three other UN soldiers. On July 18, Major Hess-von Kruedener had sent a number of his colleagues, including regimental officers such as myself, an e-mail describing what the situation was like at his location since the Israeli attacks began against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

“Based on the intensity and volatility of this current situation and the unpredictability of both sides (Hezbollah and Israel), and given the operational tempo of the Hezbollah and the IDF, we are not safe to venture out to conduct our normal patrol activities. We have now switched to Observation Post Duties and are observing any and all violations as they occur.”

"UNTSO was established in 1948 and is the UN’s oldest mission. Canada has participated since its inception, and one of its current roles has been to monitor the ceasefire in the Golan Heights after the 1967 Six-Day War.

"When there had been a semblance of peace, UN monitoring made considerable sense, so minor violations could be dealt with quickly.

"But to leave the observers in place with a war under way stretches the credibility of the UN’s operational judgment close to the breaking point. The penultimate paragraph of Major Hess-von Kruedener’s e-mail is prophetic, to say the least:

“The closest artillery has landed within two metres of our position and the closest 1,000-pound aerial bomb has landed 100 metres from our patrol base. This has not been deliberate targeting, but has rather been due to tactical necessity.”

"This is what we call “veiled speech” in military jargon. It means hiding the truth in lingo that outsiders would not necessarily understand. What he is saying translates roughly as:

“We have Hezbollah fighters all over our position engaging the IDF and using us as shields. They will probably stay, hoping that the IDF won’t target them for fear of hitting us.”

"Surprising? Not really.I have served in another mission where one side constantly set up its weapon systems, including mortars, in and around hospitals, medical clinics, mosques and, yes, UN positions, knowing full well that, when it engaged its enemies and received return fire, it would make for compelling TV as the networks covered the civilian carnage. (When they took up positions around my soldiers, I advised their leaders that I would authorize my soldiers to kill them within the hour if they didn’t withdraw.

"Fortunately, as I was not an unarmed observer, I was in a position to do that.) In many cases, the weapon systems were moved immediately after firing, and their positions around civilians were abandoned before innocents paid the price for their despicable techniques. You have to admit this technique helps to win the PR war, which often is as important as the fighting one."

That is a good example Peter of the inherent dishonesty of BBC "news" reporting.

I think the Israelis did screw up in their attack on the UN post & if I am not going to criticise the UN cease fire moniters murdered by Croatia for not getting out of harm's way then I cannot criticise the ones in Lebanon either. I can, of course, criticise the media & politicians who call the one a crime & remain silent about the other.

Your thoughts expressed here coincide with mine. It is pretty hypocritical for Annan to condemn Israel for the deaths of the UN monitors, as it is for the Western media and politicians to do the same, whilst totally ignoring ALL UN personnel killed by Izetbegovic's and Tudjman's troops during the 1990's.

Maybe the IDF did screw up as you say. However at least if they did and can't admit it, they were trying to hit Hizbollah terrorists and did NOT DELIBERATELY kill the UN monitors the way Izetbegovic did in Sarajevo for 3 and a half years and Tudjman did during Operation Storm, and Operation Flash from April to August 1995.

Neil, a timely reminder of the lies of NGO (”Non-Governmental Organization”, as in: “Hi, my name’s John, and you know, I’m NOT a murderer!!”)the George Soros funded "Human Rights Watch", in the Balkans, and the 1992 MI6 plan to murder Slobodan Milosevic ,revealed by ex-MI6 agent, Richard Tomlinson.

Izetbegovic appointed the Muslim National Council (MNC) of Bosnia to achieve long-term aspirations, to create a Muslim state in the Balkans. This state would defend the Muslim interests throughout Yugoslavia, i.e. Sandzak, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia). “Rise brother Muslims, there are enough of us to accomplish our goals, whom the Muslim and those of Muslim blood will not betray. This time will never come again. Now is the opportunity to realize the dream of every Muslim” [qouted in Doc Center, 2002 from the Bosnian Muslim magazine VOX]. Among other objectives the MNC was working for were the creation of a Muslim state within the borders of present day B&H and formation of the Muslim Armed Forces.

In October 1991, the MNC defined its political platform:

“The day is nearing when the announced Islamic Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be proclaimed. The date, which every Muslim in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sandzak [Raška] is ardently waiting for has been known for a long time to be the 31st December. There are some indications that the Serbs might oppose this historic event...Every individual Serb must be aware of the responsibility of the entire nation, the penalty for crimes will be collective-for one dead Muslim one hundred Sebs will be liquidated-for one wounded Muslim (depending on the wound severity) 10-50 Serbs will be executed [ibid].

The document further elaborates how the Serbs would be treated in the Islamic Republic.

“All Serbs will have a 12-hour working day. The wages will be proportionate to the loyalty of all employees and as a rule they will be paid 30 percent less than the wages of Muslims whom occupy the same post ... Serbs will receive rations for food, which they will obtain in special shops. Serbs do not have national parties and if the do not abide by the rules of political life, they will not be entitled to political organization or to vote..Serbs are equal to Muslims if, of their own will, they are received into the Islamic faith of their forefathers...A good Serb is a living and obedient Serb or a dead, disobedient Serb [ibid].

The presidency of the Association of the Islamic Clergy (Ilmia) for B&H offered in 1992 in huge print, run in annual Takvim, the following instruction for jihad:

“Jihad in Islam is not only a war in the name of Allah. In reality, Islam is a revolutionary ideology and program that aims at changing the social system of the whole world and order it in harmony with its regulations and ideals. Islam wants to destroy all the states and governments anywhere on earth which stand opposed to the ideology and program of Islam, regardless of the state or the nation that is in power. The purpose of Islam is to establish the state based on its ideology and program, no matter which nation becomes the bearer of Islam or which nation is undermined in the process of establishing the ideological Islamic state” [ibid].

I hadn't seen that before that is a pretty disgusting example of what the BBC call "moderation". I would say that Izetbegovic's greater claim to illegitimacy is that Bosnia had a rotating Presidency & that at the time he declared "independence" Radovan Karadic was in fact the legal President. This has not prevented the ICTY charging him with the crime of rejecting the authority of Izetbegovic.

You are right on target with your comments.Izetbegovic was due to hand over the chair of the collective presidency over to the Serbian leader,but illegally refused to do what he was required to do under the constitution.

It gets worse: Izetbegovic was NOT even elected to head the Bosnian citizenry!! He illegally usurped power from the legitimate winner of the 1990 Bosnian elections: secular entrepreneur/businessman, Mr.Fikret Abdic, whom apart from being allied with the Serbs (thats right, the people who were supposedly anti-muslim racists trying to create an ethnically pure "Greater Serbia" according to Norman Fraser's favourite British rag, the Guardian) - the Serbs being lead by Radovan Karadzic - and being by far the most popular Bosnian muslim politician, Mr.Fikret Abdic, according to a report in the Economist in 1993, was also"...pro-Yugoslavia and lukewarm about Bosnian independence."

More information on this shocking truth, never revealed by the BBC/ITN/Guardian et al, can be found here:

Also, see below for a timely reminder of what kind of Islamist fundamentalist characters Izetbegovic and his supporters in the Clinton administration were allying themselves with (inconvenient facts which were - and still are - all dutifully covered up "by accident" for the last 16 years by the BBC/ITN/CNN,the Guardian, et al):*******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

"...Holbrooke, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the Clinton White House all played key rôles in supporting the Islamists who, as it transpired, were consistently working with al-Qaida and the Iranian Government, among others, in planning major terrorist attacks on the US.

Amb. Hays worked closely with Mr Holbrooke in the UN during this period. As a result, it was now seen as important that this pattern of support for people who were later seen to be involved in terrorist actions against the US should not be allowed to emerge, particularly in the build-up to the elections, which were regarded as being critical to Sen. Hillary Clinton and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander-Europe (SACEUR) Gen. Clark."

"Little wonder that numerous US policy analysts, eventhose who are hostile to Yugoslavia as a basic stance,are extremely uncomfortable with the ClintonAdministration's close ties with the KLA.

"There is no doubt that the involvement of the twobrothers al-Zawahiri in the two movements is notcoincidental. Ben Works, director of the StrategicResearch Institute of the US, noted: "There's no doubtthat bin Laden's people have been in Kosovo helping toarm, equip and train the KLA. . . . The [US]Administration's policy in Kosovo is to help binLaden. It almost seems as if the ClintonAdministration's policy is to guarantee moreterrorism."

"Noted strategic analyst and columnist, former US ArmyColonel Harry Summers, said on August 12, 1998, thatin Kosovo, the US found itself "championing the veryIslamic fundamentalist terrorist groups who are ourmortal enemies elsewhere".

At the same time, Alija Izetbegovic, who had been released early from jail in 1988 (serving only six years of a 14 year sentence for pro-Islamic anti-state activities), visited Islamic fundamentalist states in the Middle East, returning to Bosnia-Herzegovina to found the SDA (Muslim Party of Democratic Action).

His 1970 manifesto, "Islamic Declaration", advocating the spread of radical pan-Islamism-politicised Islam-throughout the world, by force if necessary, was reissued in Sarajevo at this time.

His Islamic Declaration is imbued with intolerance towards Western religion, culture and economic systems. This is also the theme projected in his book, Islam between East and West, first published in the US in 1984, and in Serbo-Croat in 1988, shortly after he was released from prison in the former Yugoslavia.

In his writings he states that Islam cannot co-exist with other religions in the same nation other than a short-term expediency measure. In the longer term, as and when Muslims become strong enough in any country, then they must seize power and form a truly Islamic state.

In the multi-party elections held in Bosnia-Herzegovina on November 18, 1990, the population voted almost exclusively along communal lines. The Muslim Democratic Action Party secured 86 seats, the Serbian Democratic Party 72, and the Croatian Democratic Union (ie: union with Croatia) Party 44 seats.

As the leader of the largest political party, Mr. Izetbegovic, became the first President of Bosnia-Herzegovina, albeit for just one year, for under the new constitution of B-H, the presidency was to revolve each year between the three parties, each of which represented one ethnic community.

Under constitutional law, in January 1992, Mr. Izetbegovic should have handed over the Presidency to Mr. Radovan Karadzic, the Serbian Democratic leader. He failed to honor the constitution and being true to his writings, he seized power, acting undemocratically and illegally.

Therefore, at no time since January 1992 should Mr. Izetbegovic have been acknowledged by the international community as the legal President of B-H.*******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

Carr [quoted above] is actually too soft because Izetbegovic had already seized the Bosnian presidency from Fikret Abdic, the winner at the polls in 1990, so Izetbegovic’s presidency never should have been recognized in the first place. But even applying Carr’s standard, since “at no time since January 1992 should Mr. Izetbegovic have been acknowledged by the international community as the legal President of B-H,” it follows that neither should the international community have recognized as legal a referendum on Bosnian independence held in March 1992, and presided by Izetbegovic.

And yet the European Union, and then the United States, rushed to endorse Izetbegovic’s referendum, and recognized breakaway 'Bosnia.' But why?

Alija Izetbegovic’s claim that “The referendum decided the question,” was ludicrous: (1) his government was illegal, (2) his referendum was illegal, (3) the landslide result was obviously produced by terrorist intimidation, and moreover it is easily shown that Izetbegovic did not have the support of even a majority of Bosnian Muslims, who themselves were not a majority of Bosnians, (4) the referendum had been boycotted en masse by the second largest ethnic community in Bosnia, and (5) this ethnic community, the Serbs, as we shall see below, happened to own and till the land in over 60% of Bosnian territory!

Under such conditions, recognizing independent Bosnia was an absurdity guaranteed to produce a civil war.

But since it was the US itself that helped supply Izetbegovic with mujahedin terrorists at least as early as 1992, and since there is no question but that Izetbegovic was a terrorist from the start, it follows that producing a civil war in Yugoslavia was precisely the US's -- and NATO's -- goal.